John 8:34-42

³⁴Jesus answered them: “I tell you most assuredly that everyone committing sin is a slave of sin.

³⁵Now the slave does not remain in the household forever; the son does remain forever.

³⁶Therefore, if the Son should make you free, you really will be free.

³⁷I know that you are descendants of Abraham, but you are wanting to kill me because my word finds no place in you.

³⁸On my part, I speak what I have observed with my Father, while on your part you do what you have observed with your father.”

³⁹They answered and said to Him, “Our father is Abraham!” Jesus says to them: “If you were children of Abraham, you would do the works of Abraham;

⁴⁰but now you are wanting to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. This sort of thing Abraham did not do!

⁴¹You do the works of your father.” Then they said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father—God.”

⁴²So Jesus said to them: “If God were your Father, you would love me, because I came forth from God and I am here. Further, I have not come on my own, but He sent me.